Title: De-scaling without democratic substance : water provisioning in peripheral Kano, Nigeria

Authors: Andrae, Gunilla

Place: [Niamey

Publisher: Association Euro-Africaine pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement] (APAD)

Year: 2010

Journal: Bulletin de l'APAD

Volume: 31-32

PAGE: --

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: local government, accountability, water supply, informal sector, institution building, democracy, nigeria

Abstract: The case of informal water supply near Kano, Nigeria, is used to highlight an expanding form of service provision in African cities and the democratic problems associated with it. Users are increasingly dependent on neo-traditional politics, rather than democratically controlled institutions.

URL: http://apad.revues.org/pdf/4051

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